This is a place for me to share some of my work. On this site you will find many examples of micro lessons. Many of them will take the form of 1 to 10 minutes video clips or short to the point articles. I believe that micro lessons could be a powerful tool that we can use with students. I hope that you enjoy this Blog site. This site will discuss educational technology as a tool for student learning. Site Publisher Fred Sharpsteen
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This is a fun way to help students learn how to spell. Also there are many professionals as Anita Archer that talk about the importance of Vocabulary as a best management practice for master educators.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

If you don't think you can fit any thing more into your teaching and time then you need to read this.

THE MAYONNAISE JAR

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day is not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and two cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.

When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and fills it with golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “YES”.

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.

“Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things - God, family,children, health, friends, and favorite passions. Things, that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car. The sand is everything else -- the small stuff.” he said.

“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “There is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that areimportant to you...” he told them.

“So... pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Worship with your family. Play with your children. Take your partner out to dinner. Spend time with good friends. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the dripping tap. Take care of the golf balls first -- the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled and said, “I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.”

network_logging A function that enables a predefined set of tags useful for debugging the specified device.

rlz < status | enable | disable > Enable or disable RLZ.

route [-n] [-6] Display the routing tables.

set_apn [-n ] [-u ] [-p ] Set the APN to use when connecting to the network specified by . If is not specified, use the network-id of the currently registered network.

set_apn -c Clear the APN to be used, so that the default APN will be used instead.

set_arpgw Turn on extra network state checking to make sure the default gateway is reachable.

sound Low level sound configuration. Can be used to play/record audio samples and enable beam forming on Pixel. "sound beamforming " will enable/disable the feature. "sound record [duration]" will start recording. "sound play " will play the recorded audio samples.

xset r rate [delay [rate]] Tweak autorepeat rates. The delay is the number of milliseconds before autorepeat starts. The rate is the number of repeats per second. xset r [keycode] Turn autorepeat on/off. If keycode is specified, it affects only that key. If not specified, it affects global behavior.

Here is a command to find more help.

help Display this help.

help_advanced Display the help for more advanced commands, mainly used for debugging.

ping [-c count] [-i interval] [-n] [-s packetsize] [-W waittime] Send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to a network host. If is "gw" then the next hop gateway for the default route is used.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

This link will take you to a site that will show you how to distribute and collect students work over the internet using google Drive and apps. This looks like a great way to collect all your assignments and keep from them organized.